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07-22-2010 Sharron Angle Attends Cuisine in The Country Event
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Sharon Angle
Photo by Dave Maxwell
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Sharron Angle Attends ‘Cuisine in the Country’ Event
By Dave Maxwell
Nevada Senate Republican candidate Sharron Angle visited in Pahranagat Valley last Saturday. Her one-day visit brought her to Alamo to attend both the Carp Roundup at the Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge and the Cuisine in the Country event at the Buckhorn Ranch.
“I came for this event,” she said. “It’s a community event, but it’s also an economic event, which is kind of neat to see that the growers here in Lincoln County are really promoting what you do best here. The Cuisine in the Country, I think it’s great.”
Most all of the food used by the 5-star chefs from Mario Batali’s Molto Vegas at The Venetian was grown locally in Lincoln County.
Angle, who is challenging incumbent Harry Reid for the U.S. Senate, admitted she has been hit hard by Reid’s campaign staff since winning the Nevada GOP primary June 8, and said she is getting ready to hit back.
Reid’s office has featured almost daily attacks on Angle in emails sent around the state. Six or seven weeks into the campaign, her small circle of advisors have struggled with competing against Reid’s large, organized operatives attacking the conservative’s every comment and view in a stream of missives, plus TV and radio ads.
“We have a strategy,” she said, “and strategy always takes money. What I have been doing for the last 30 days is building up enough cash on hand to go forward with our own commercials and to really begin to talk about truth. I think that’s what people want. They want someone they can trust to tell them the truth.”
A recent poll published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal showed Reid has overtaken her in the polls, with 44 percent to Angle’s 37 percent of likely voters.
Previous polls had the two candidates nearly in a statistical dead-heat. The July 12-14 Mason-Dixon poll was the first one to put Reid ahead of Angle outside the usual 4 percentage point margin of error.
“Polls are just a snapshot in time,” she said during an interview at the Buckhorn Ranch. “One day on how a certain segment of the population feels on that given day.”
The poll also noted that nearly half of the voters in Nevada do not have a favorable opinion of Reid, who has been in the U.S. Senate since 1986.
Angle said she has her own internet forces out there. “We surpassed Harry Reid on Facebook, and on internet fund raising.”
Despite claims by Reid Angle wants to shut down Social Security, she says she wants to save it, not kill it, by restoring $2.3 trillion to its trust fund that the government has used to pay for programs. She would also allow young workers to opt out of the system and open private retirement accounts.
“We knew that he (Reid) was going to come blasting, and we haven’t really responded to that criticism, but now that we have responses, of course you’ll see things change again. And we expect them to change off and on through the rest of this campaign.”
Angle countered Reid’s claim that he has “done more for Nevada,” with the fact of the state’s “14 percent unemployment, the highest foreclosure rate in the nation, the highest bankruptcy rate, the highest housing price index, etc. Everything that is happening in our economy right now says that Harry Reid is not good for Nevada, and with those kind of figures we say ‘Stop doing more.’”
Angle said she does plan to visit in Lincoln County again before the November general election. It is not known if Sen. Reid plans to make a campaign visit to the County.
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